Detecting and measuring gravitational waves requires the use of extremely sensitive instruments. Laser interferometry was pioneered in the 1970s by American physicist Rainer Weiss. This technique uses ...

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration recently began a new observing run that promises to take gravitational-wave astronomy to the next level. According to scientists from across the ...

In the joint research project “3G-GWD”, scientists at Laser Center Hannover (LZH) is working on the development of new laser sources for future, more sensitive gravitational wave detectors of the next ...

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Last month, work began on the world’s first space-based gravitational wave detector. The European Space Agency and partner aerospace companies are developing orbiting, detector spacecraft to observe ...

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Researchers have designed a new type of gravitational wave detector that operates in the milli-Hertz range, a region untouched by current observatories. Built with optical resonators and atomic clocks ...

In September 2015, a vibration lasting just one-fifth of a second changed the history of physics. It was the first direct detection of gravitational waves — perturbations in the geometry of space-time ...